76 | nzdairy DAIRY SERVICES » Baz Janssen and Joel Burns Every job done with pride and precision Russell Fredric When it comes to rural, commercial and residential building, Baz Janssen Building & Engineering can handle almost anything, and do it with pride and passion. Based in Winton, Central Southland, director Baz Janssen has been running the business for 13 years. A qualified builder, he grew up on a dairy farm which has given him an excellent understanding of the sometimes complex needs of his farmer clients. The business employs 12 staff who have been described by clients as efficient, hard-working perfectionists with an aptitude for precision. Their skills cover many aspects of construction, concrete placing and engineering including fabricating steel, structural frames and pipework for yards and sheds, along with general engineering services and machinery maintenance. Baz Janssen Building & Engineering has a small fleet of machinery comprising three trucks, two 20 tonne, a five tonne and a two tonne excavator, and a wheeled roller both for its own use and for hire. This enables the company to efficiently complete ground work services such as effluent pond construction, shed site, new home site and foundation preparation, driveways and farm lanes, trenching and drainage. Baz and his team innovated a concrete nib profile for wintering barn floors which is moulded off-site and this prefabrication creates efficiencies which can be vital for time critical builds. “We designed our own mould; it’s got a nice curve at the top and a radius at the bottom where the silage sits against so it’s not in a corner. We can use them for feed pads and in wintering barns so it’s quite universal. It works awesome.” Some of the company’s completed projects include substantial dairy sheds and wintering barns, with the company having built up to seven milking sheds a year during times of high demand. Today, a lot of its dairy farm work is related to upgrades for consent renewals which involves various levels of work through to complete redesigns of effluent systems. Last year, a client, Joel Burns, contracted Baz Janssen Building & Engineering to complete the comprehensive concrete work for a 1000 cow capacity wintering barn. The project included the concrete in front of the barn, the feed lane, the prefabricated nib walls and the effluent system including weeping walls and the collection area. Because of the scale and complexity of projects such as the Burn’s barn in which the concrete area can be in the order of 10,000 square metres, careful planning and execution is required, Baz says. Completed projects include dairy sheds and wintering barns. Baz Janssen and his team innovated a concrete nib profile for wintering barn floors which is moulded off-site and this prefabrication creates efficiencies which can be vital for time critical builds. “For me, it’s to understand exactly what they are trying to achieve, and then working backwards from that so that we design something that’s going to tick all the boxes. Everyone, I guess, has a little bit different criteria in what they need or what’s really important to them and every farm is run differently as well.” “[Joel’s project] was a bit of a battle with the weather near the end; the ground works were held up a little bit to start with which put the pressure near the end.” Because of its length, Baz and his team created a 7.5 metre long nibs for Joel’s barn, READY MIX CONCRETE - GRAVEL WINTON HEAD OFFICE P.O. BOX 34, Winton Phone: (03) 236 6580 e: office@mcgregorconcreteltd.co.nz www.mcgregorconcreteltd.co.nz Te Anau: (03) 249 7051 Lumsden: (03) 236 6580 with each nib being craned in place. Good communication both ways was a key to the successful completion of Baz Janssen Building & Engineering’s part of the project, Baz says. The barn was ready for the cows to enjoy for the winter of 2023.
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